Steve.e

Worm harnesses on botoom bouncers in the middle, unfortunately you will pick up a lot of panfish also, but they can be huge. another method is lead core on a short rod on the bottom with a 5 ft leader of 10 lb and a floating rapala. You can attach a small weight at end of the leadcore to help it get down quicker, using less line. Use a jerking motion, like jigging. Any change in tension felt, set hook hard. Can also hand fish the same method. This will eliminate most panfish interference. Drifting the bottom with large shiners is effective also for eyes and bass.

Gen river walleyes are disgusting. They taste like the river smells up by kodak. It is fun though in may-june up by seth green island. Water gets in the 70's it shuts off.

Been reading forums on transom and stringer issues on older fiberglass boats, getting a little nervous about buying one, and don't want to start paying

 for multiple surveys . I think I'll start looking for newer or a starcraft.

OK what does bump mean?

I don't have much luck with midrange fish either. I check out bigfoot charter's journal on line and he seems to get them early am only then goes deep. He doesn't give too much detail. He rarely catches any bows or browns, just lots of lakers. Check him out. I'm on the east side by the olney place store, maybe we can hook up sometime and combine ideas.

Put the bells off the back of your weights, and run your spoon 4 to 6 feet behind. No more drag and it works just as well getting hits.

Any chance you'll be up near Rochester again very soon?

With riggers, I always run a lake rig or cowbells off the ball. then set the suttons 4-6 feet behind the attractors. This time of year fish about 10-20 ft off the bottom in 100 early morning then start moving out at 10 ft increments every hour after 7:30, fish 5-10 ft off bottom. Fishing gets slow late morning till late afternoon. I like to troll the edge of the shadow cast by the west side hill(either branch)from 4 till sundown. I'm fishing the east branch 2 mi south of viking. Note to trolling speed, slow it down to 1-1.5 mph for lakers. They are generally bottom feeders and lazy.

do Penn Yans have composite stringers/ If so how are they in this boat? Could they be an issue/

i was down there 4th of July week, lots of fleas and some weeds in am in the middle after a calm night. Should be illegal for people to rake seaweed in front of their place. Anyways, I'm going down for a week Aug 4th. I have pretty good luck for lakers. Go out pretty much every morning. I can update you from there. 

I'm interested, is it still available? Does it have stringers and could they be an issue?